Lately i've tried to record footage using Dosbox, although it hasn't been smooth sailing sadly.

Basically, i've used both Fraps and Dosbox's very own onboard recorder, however none of them have given any real good result. With the onboard recorder, when i utilize it it'll slow down Dosbox to a crawl, running at around 15fps and under, but when i go to view the video, it'll play correctly as if there was never any lag. This is frustrating of course, so i set frame skip to 1, then 2, but to no avail - same result.

With Fraps, the frame rate is so inconsistent it's ridiculous, it'll go from 30fps to 12 in a heart beat. I know there's not really a great deal i can do to fix this though. I did set the capture/output folder to my external hard drive to see if it'll prevent lag, but nope.

<Boilerplate> Thing is MoonStalkeR: You seem to be suffering from schizphernia, which the MoonStalkeR personality is your base one, Mobius is the aggressive personality, Krypto is the depressive personality, Nautalus is the pervert personality, etc

You would've thought the internal would be faster than the external, but nope. Both hard drives deliver the same result.

The trouble with using demo recording is that you can't save or load. I also wouldn't be able to give commentary on a genuine level, plus i'd have to make sure to NEVER die, which would frustrate the hell out of me to no end.

Thing is the computer i'm using is definitely capable, yet i receive the same issues i had with my previous machine which would be 5 years old now if i still had it. There has to be some sort of set up that works.

Ella wrote:You would've thought the internal would be faster than the external, but nope. Both hard drives deliver the same result.

Was it a secondary internal drive? I had flawless recording when running Blood and FRAPS on my main drive while the footage was being recorded to an additional internal (SATA) HDD. Both were 1TB 7200 RPM models. The computer had an i5-760 CPU and 4gb RAM. Do you know how many RPM your Buffalo operates on?

<Boilerplate> Thing is MoonStalkeR: You seem to be suffering from schizphernia, which the MoonStalkeR personality is your base one, Mobius is the aggressive personality, Krypto is the depressive personality, Nautalus is the pervert personality, etc

I've fixed the issue. I was only recording with fraps at 30fps which makes the games choppy as hell because the frame rate isn't fixed while recording. Literally i just increased the frame rate to 60 and it's fine now.